************************************************************I did try Hazard's 10.6 distro and didn't have much luck with it. After the installation, the computer would get to the gray apple screen and then it would turn grey with thin, evenly spaced vertical lines and the whole screen would blink on and off.*************************************************************

Posted 27 May 2012 - 02:02 PM

Posted 27 May 2012 - 03:40 PM

Cerastez

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You are not kidding!! I have had fairly good luck with intel machines so when this AMD just sort of fell into my lap, I thought, how bad could it be. It has been absolutely awful! I have not found a single example of anyone getting this MoBo to work.

Oh well, I may still try to figure out DSDT editing, there must be some good tutorials on here somewhere.

Posted 28 May 2012 - 01:01 AM

Posted 28 May 2012 - 07:36 AM

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You still speak of com.apple.Boot.plist. More recent versions of Chameleon changed the name of this file to org.chameleon.Boot.plist. This would indicate you are using an older version of Chameleon. I would suggest updating to a recent version of Chameleon and set GraphicsEnabler = Yes. The reason is that more recent versions of Chameleon inject for the following subset of cards:

Posted 29 May 2012 - 02:43 AM

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You still speak of com.apple.Boot.plist. More recent versions of Chameleon changed the name of this file to org.chameleon.Boot.plist. This would indicate you are using an older version of Chameleon. I would suggest updating to a recent version of Chameleon and set GraphicsEnabler = Yes. The reason is that more recent versions of Chameleon inject for the following subset of cards:

I would also check your device id to see if it matches one of those in the list. Maybe you'll get lucky.

Thank you, I gave a newer chameleon a try and unfortunately it didn't fix the problem. The same thing happens, it gets to the gray apple screen and re-boots.

I have been googling and reading and have come across several posts that say that the built in GeForce 6150LE shares memory and is unsupported. I am guessing that it shares memory with the MoBo? Anyway, I think I just have to accept that it is not going to work. Thanks for your help.

Posted 29 May 2012 - 02:53 AM

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Anyway, I think I just have to accept that it is not going to work.

So, try one more thing. Move the video drivers out of the way so they don't conflict and see if the card will boot in VESA mode. You will be stuck with one resolution and no acceleration for videos and games, but at least you should be able to boot to the Desktop.

Boot to single user mode using -s.

This is a text-based environment with a command line. When you see the prompt "root:", type the following:

Posted 29 May 2012 - 06:58 AM

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It will boot ok if I don't have any video drivers ie no NVenabler.kext and if I have set GraphicsEnabler to NO. I get some set screen resolution and no QE/CI. I hate to sound greedy, but I want more than that....